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Livet är En Schlager
''Livet är en schlager'' (''Life is a Schlager'', also known as ''Once in a Lifetime'' or ''Hånden på hjertet'' in Danish) is a Swedish film released in 2000, written by Jonas Gardell and directed by his usual directing partner Susanne Bier. The film features cameo appearances by many Swedish singers. The film was produced by Nordisk Film and Sveriges Television in association with Sonet Film and TV2 Denmark. Plot The film is based around the life of Mona Berglund, a mother-of-four obsessed with the Eurovision Song Contest - so much so, that her house is decorated with posters of her idols, and she has named her children after Swedish Eurovision performers: Kikki, Anna Book, Lena PH and Carola. Her partner Bosse is unemployed, and she is left to feed the family. Her brother, Candy, is a transvestite and an AIDS-sufferer who designs clothes. David, Mona's employer has cerebral palsy and is a proficient songwriter, and composes a song which Mona steals and sends a demo of (wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier (; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for ''In a Better World'') and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award (for directing ''The Night Manager (British TV series), The Night Manager''). Bier made her feature film debut with ''Freud's Leaving Home'' (1991). She has directed a string of films including ''Open Hearts'' (2002), ''Brothers (2004 film), Brothers'' (2004), ''After the Wedding (2006 film), After the Wedding'' (2006), and ''In a Better World'' (2010), where After the Wedding earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films ''Things We Lost in the Fire (film), Things We Lost in the Fire'' (2007), ''Love Is All You Need'' (2012), ''Serena (2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Häggkvist
Carola Maria Häggkvist (; born 8 September 1966), commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music.Eurovision.tvCarola will represent Sweden again Retrieved on 29 February 2008. Her debut album, '' Främling'' (1983), sold around one million copies and remains the biggest-selling album in Swedish music history.Carola InternationaHistory – Biography Retrieved on 29 February 2008. During her career, she has recorded many top-selling albums and singles and is referred to as Sweden's most prominent female singer. Some of her biggest hits are " Främling", "Tommy tycker om mig", " Fångad av en stormvind", "All the Reasons to Live", "I Believe in Love", "Genom allt", and " Evighet". Besides Swedish, she has also released records in Dutch, German, English, Norwegian and Japanese. Häggkvist has represented Sweden a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sissela Kyle
Sissela Maria Kyle (born 17 March 1957, in Örgryte, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish actress, theater director and comedian. Biography Early life Sissela Kyle is the daughter of Per Gunnar Kyle and Gunnhild Kyle née Karlson (1921-2016). She grew up in Partille outside of Gothenburg. During her upbringing she was very interested in theater, and became part of a theater group in Gothenburg. After moving away from home in 1976 she started to work as a teacher temp and in 1978 she was accepted in to the Theater School of Stockholm. She studied in the same class as Peter Stormare, Jessica Zandén, Maria Johansson and Tomas Norström. Career Kyle has appeared in numerous theater productions, for several theaters like the Stockholm City Theatre, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Boulevardteatern and Hamburger Börs. She early on established herself as a comedian, but also did serious roles in the theater productions ''Revisorn'' (1990) and ''Onkel Vanja'' (1994). Kyle has also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hanzon
Sven Thomas Hanzon (born 20 June 1962) is a Swedish actor, stage actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and former footballer. He has worked with Ingmar Bergman in both movies and on stage. Biography Early life and football career He was born Sven Thomas Hansson 1962 in Stockholm, Sweden. In his youth, Hanzon played football for Djurgårdens IF, coming through as a full back. He made his senior debut in the derby against Hammarby IF at the age of 17. He also played on the Swedish youth national team. He left a promising career as a professional footballer to pursue an acting career. Ending his career at the age of 18, he had played 21 matches for Djurgården in the Swedish top-tier Allsvenskan, lost the 1980 Swedish junior championship final to Örgryte IS, and played 10 matches for the Sweden U19 team. Hanzon, with several others, started the theatre group Theater Cameleont in 1982. The group later became Club Cameleont. He wrote ''A Joker in the Game'' on behal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Källgren
Anna Sofia Helena Källgren, known as Sofia Källgren (born 17 August 1970, Högsbo, Sweden), is a Swedish singer. She sings in two other languages, English and Mandarin Chinese, in addition to in Swedish. Biography In 1982 she debuted on the TV-program '' Gomorron Sverige'' on Sveriges Television. In 1986 she performed the song "I Know Him So Well" from ''Chess'' in ''De okändas revy'' leading to participation in a televised talent show ''Folkparkernas talangjakt''. In 1987 she was awarded the Ulla Billquist-scholarship. Källgren performed a song, "Världen är vacker", entered to Melodifestivalen 1989. The song was not selected, but Källgren was offered to perform the song " Världen är vår" with ''Visitors''. In Melodifestivalen 1990 she entered again and performed "Handen på hjärtat" solo backed up by three dancers wearing partial fursuits. She has performed as Belle in the Swedish version of ''Beauty and the Beast'', as Odette in '' The Swan Princess'', and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handen På Hjärtat
Handen (also known as Haninge Centrum) is a part of Metropolitan Stockholm and the seat of Haninge Municipality (Haninge Kommun) in Stockholm County in eastern Sweden. Handen had around 15 092 inhabitants in 2018. Geographically and statistically Handen is a part of the Stockholm urban area. Handen has a station on the Stockholm commuter rail system and a large bus station serving great areas of Södertörn. Handen is where the municipality seat of Haninge Municipality, Haninge is located. Haninge Municipality, Haninge's major shopping center, Haninge Centrum, and the joint campus of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, KTH and Södertörn University, Södertörns Högskola are also located here. The Övre Rudasjön lake is located just west of the commercial center. References Neighbourhoods of Stockholm Municipal seats of Stockholm County Swedish municipal seats Populated places in Haninge Municipality {{Stockholm-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Lund
Regina Charlotta Theodora Lund (born 17 July 1967) is a Swedish celebrity, award-winning actress, Swedish Grammy nominated artist, singer-songwriter, poet, writer, model, comedian and awarded painter. Regina Lund is a well-known household name in Sweden for film, television, radio, and theatre, as well as musicals and dramas on stage. Soon after acting school, she played Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by the eldest son of Ingmar Bergman, Jan Bergman, which toured throughout Sweden. Regina Lund has been famous for constantly creating and working both in underground and mainstream productions. Early life Born to director Christian Lund (1943–2007) and actress Sonja Lund (b. 1942) in Vaasa, Finland, while her parents were working there in theatre. Regina grew up in Gävle, Gävle, Sweden with her grandparents. From the age of 10 to 18, Regina spent summers with family members in the United States and was an exchange student in Salt Lake City throughout her last year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Believe In Miracles (Carola Häggkvist Song)
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I Believe in Miracles may refer to: * ''I Believe in Miracles'' (film), a 2015 British film * "I Believe in Miracles", a 1973 song by The Jackson Sisters. * "I Believe in Miracles", a song by the Ramones from the album '' Brain Drain''. * "I Believe in Miracles", a 1934 song by George W. Meyer and Pete Wendling * "You Sexy Thing", a 1975 song by Hot Chocolate. * ''I Believe in Miracles'', a book by Kathryn Kuhlman Kathryn Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 – February 20, 1976) was an American Christian evangelist, preacher and minister who was referred to by the press as a faith healer. Early life Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born in 1907 near Concordia, Missouri, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Life Was A Song
If or IF may refer to: *If (preposition), a preposition used in English conditional sentences * If (subordinator), a subordinator used for English subordinate interrogative clauses Arts and entertainment Film and television * '' If....'', a 1968 film starring Malcolm McDowell * ''IF'' (film), a 2024 fantasy film about imaginary friends * ''If...'' (TV series), a series of BBC drama-documentaries * "If..." (''Desperate Housewives''), a 2010 episode of ''Desperate Housewives'' Gaming * IF, a character in the ''Hyperdimension Neptunia'' game series * Interactive fiction, text-based computer games featuring interactive stories and environments * '' Shin Megami Tensei If...'', a 1994 video game in the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' series * ''Kill la Kill the Game: IF'', a 2019 video game based on the ''Kill la Kill'' anime Literature * ''If'' (magazine), subtitled "Worlds of Science Fiction" * ''IF Magazine'', ''Inside Film'', Australian magazine * ''If...'' (comic), a political comi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
